Play started on 21 August in the $5,300 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) 2013. The tournament boasted an enormous prize pool of $10 million guaranteed. On the three Day 1s, a total of 2,384 players registered to accumulate $11,920,000 in prize money.
The six-handed Final Table took place on Wednesday with Blair Hinkle in the chiplead and EPT Monte Carlo Super High Roller champion Justin Bonomo as favourite, sitting behind the second biggest stack.
The Final Table chip counts were as follows:
Blair Hinkle – 22,800,000
Justin Bonomo – 18,500,000
Ray Qartomy – 13,050,000
Mukul Pahuja – 10,200,000
Samuel Guilabert – 4,675,000
Greg Lehn – 2,200,000
First out was shortstack Greg Lehn, who had a mere 14 big blinds at the start of the finale. He survived 12 hands before going preflop all-in with K-J, where Bonomo tabled A-Q and the latter hand held out on the board. Three hands later, Samuel Guilabert followed: Mukul Pahuja opened from the Button, Guilabert 3-bet from the SB and Bonomo 4-bet all-in from the BB. Pahuja folded and Guilabert called all-in with pocket twos. Bonomo had queens and, despite his chance for a wheel, Guilabert’s outs never came.
On the 25,000/100,000/200,000 blind level, Ray Qartomy went preflop all-in with 2,375,000 in chips and showed sevens. Hinkle called and tabled K-Q to meet a queen on the board. Soon, the heads-up got set: Pahuja opened to 550,000 from the Button, Bonomo 3-bet to 1,500,000 from the SB, Oahuja shoved his remaining 7,450,000 and Bonomo called. On the neutral board, Pahuja tabled K-T while Bonomo had A-T.
The duel brought about immense action that lasted 167 hands. Starting with nearly equal stacks, Bonomo grabbed the lead first, winning a major pot with a nine-high straight against Hinkle’s eight-high straight. Hinkle then came back by winning several smaller and medium pots, just to see Bonomo get ahead once again in a mucked hand.
The first all-in hand of the heads-up ended up in a split with both players showing A-3. Soon, the stacks got once again into the middle and Hinkle doubled up through Bonomo with sixes against twos. In the last hand, Bonomo moved all-in on the Q-9-5-J board with Q-8 and Hinkle called, showing K-T for a nut straight, making Bonomo draw dead.
Hinkle’s best result had previously been his victory in the WSOP 2008 $2,000 NLHE event for $507,613. He could now add $1,745,245 to his bankroll.
The end results are as follows:
1st: Blair Hinkle – $1,745,245
2nd: Justin Bonomo – $1,163,500
3rd: Mukul Pahuja – $872,625
4th: Ray Qartomy – $639,925
5th: Samuel Guilabert – $494,490
6th: Greg Lehn – $378,138
The six-handed Final Table took place on Wednesday with Blair Hinkle in the chiplead and EPT Monte Carlo Super High Roller champion Justin Bonomo as favourite, sitting behind the second biggest stack.
The Final Table chip counts were as follows:
Blair Hinkle – 22,800,000
Justin Bonomo – 18,500,000
Ray Qartomy – 13,050,000
Mukul Pahuja – 10,200,000
Samuel Guilabert – 4,675,000
Greg Lehn – 2,200,000
First out was shortstack Greg Lehn, who had a mere 14 big blinds at the start of the finale. He survived 12 hands before going preflop all-in with K-J, where Bonomo tabled A-Q and the latter hand held out on the board. Three hands later, Samuel Guilabert followed: Mukul Pahuja opened from the Button, Guilabert 3-bet from the SB and Bonomo 4-bet all-in from the BB. Pahuja folded and Guilabert called all-in with pocket twos. Bonomo had queens and, despite his chance for a wheel, Guilabert’s outs never came.
On the 25,000/100,000/200,000 blind level, Ray Qartomy went preflop all-in with 2,375,000 in chips and showed sevens. Hinkle called and tabled K-Q to meet a queen on the board. Soon, the heads-up got set: Pahuja opened to 550,000 from the Button, Bonomo 3-bet to 1,500,000 from the SB, Oahuja shoved his remaining 7,450,000 and Bonomo called. On the neutral board, Pahuja tabled K-T while Bonomo had A-T.
The duel brought about immense action that lasted 167 hands. Starting with nearly equal stacks, Bonomo grabbed the lead first, winning a major pot with a nine-high straight against Hinkle’s eight-high straight. Hinkle then came back by winning several smaller and medium pots, just to see Bonomo get ahead once again in a mucked hand.
The first all-in hand of the heads-up ended up in a split with both players showing A-3. Soon, the stacks got once again into the middle and Hinkle doubled up through Bonomo with sixes against twos. In the last hand, Bonomo moved all-in on the Q-9-5-J board with Q-8 and Hinkle called, showing K-T for a nut straight, making Bonomo draw dead.
Hinkle’s best result had previously been his victory in the WSOP 2008 $2,000 NLHE event for $507,613. He could now add $1,745,245 to his bankroll.
The end results are as follows:
1st: Blair Hinkle – $1,745,245
2nd: Justin Bonomo – $1,163,500
3rd: Mukul Pahuja – $872,625
4th: Ray Qartomy – $639,925
5th: Samuel Guilabert – $494,490
6th: Greg Lehn – $378,138
